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Tired of the rising licensing cost of VMWare, Tesco seems to be looking to switch to Proxmox. itsfoss.com/news/tesco-v...

Make Ubuntu 26.10 yours by following these tweaks and tips. itsfoss.com/things-to-do...

Daemonarchy keeps Omarchy’s installer and look, with FreeBSD handling the system underneath. itsfoss.com/news/daemona...

Amutable Foundations is a read-only, image-based system where every machine produces signed reports of its own state. itsfoss.com/news/amutabl...

Grub is KING

Mirko Brombin is working to get Microsoft Office running reliably on Linux. He also thinks the apps cloning Office and Photoshop pixel for pixel cross a line. We talked about both, plus AI agents, Vanilla OS and his new Sinty OS. itsfoss.com/interview/mi...

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Calculate usable capacity, fault tolerance, and storage efficiency for any RAID or ZFS layout. Also see if there are any risks associated with your rebuilds. itsfoss.com/raid-calcula...

The list covers desktops, X servers, and a Wayland-hosted X11 layer. Basically, projects that are resisting a Waylan-only Linux future. itsfoss.com/projects-kee...

The small SBC brings a 6 TOPS NPU, Wi-Fi 6, a Pi-compatible 40-pin header, and up to 32GB RAM, starting at $153. itsfoss.com/news/armsom-...

The Linux Foundation Research survey also found that only 35% of projects have a formal policy permitting AI contributions. itsfoss.com/news/red-hat...

Aimed at hardware exposed to radiation, like satellites, BeamFS can repair data without keeping a second copy. itsfoss.com/news/beamfs-...

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A new kernel and a new Ubuntu release are here. itsfoss.com/newsletter/f...

Instead of trying to emulate traditional terminal editors, TTT provides a modern, GUI-like editing experience in the terminal with virtually no configuration required. itsfoss.com/terminal-tex...

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The Brax Wink is a 4-inch phone that runs BraxOS and has a keyboard that clips onto the back. itsfoss.com/news/brax-wi...

AI is cloning office suites and it can reverse engineer apps for you. Also, people are fixing their smart TVs with AI. Check out the latest Local AI Weekly newsletter. itsfoss.com/newsletter/l...

The new name covers the shell, greeter, search, system monitor, calendar, and file manager, all released as part of DMS 2.0. itsfoss.com/news/dank-li...

Planning to get certified? You can get CKS and KCSA for 40% less and 35% off most other Linux Foundation certifications. Offer ends October 23. itsfoss.com/news/lf-cybe...

Looking for a new dock in KDE? Try Punchi https://github.com/PunchiSoft/punchi-dock-remastered

Scope is for teams that maintain SDKs, docs, or MCP servers and want to see where coding agents get stuck. itsfoss.com/news/microso...

Quick Firefox Tip 💡 Assign tags to bookmarks for quick address bar access. When bookmarking a site, click the bookmark button and add a new tag or select an existing one. Type that tag in the address bar to see all bookmarks associated with it.

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The project says the new desktop has its own Wayland compositor and graphics library. itsfoss.com/news/cutefis...

Android TV owners are pointing Claude Code at their TVs over ADB to strip out ads, telemetry and bloat. Here's how it works and where it can go wrong. itsfoss.com/news/debloat...

A fix for memory freezes lands alongside Zen 6 groundwork, and early Apple M3 support. itsfoss.com/news/linux-k...

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I think I downloaded the wrong Xfce. All I wanted was some lightweight experience.

There are more operating systems than just Linux. Here's a list of a few that are under active development. itsfoss.com/open-source-...

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Swedish developer Aaron Ardiri open-sourced a gigabyte of Palm OS SDKs, docs, and dev utilities after discovering an active preservation community still improving old Palm apps. He also deliberately excluded proprietary ROMs and commercial software.

Quick GNOME Tip 💡 In Gedit, remove duplicate lines and sort a file in one step: Open the menu, select Tools ➝ Sort, check “Remove duplicates”, then click Sort. Save to keep the changes, or use CTRL + Z to undo.

They say running Steam in the same kind of container its games use should make the client behave more consistently. itsfoss.com/news/steam-l...

And finally... after so many years, Steam is finally going to be a 64-bit only app. That should end years of dependence on 32-bit i686 libraries. Users would no longer need to maintain a 32-bit system library stack just to run the client. In beta, for now.

Memtest86+ v9.00 is out, and it finally brings ARM64 support. The go-to memory testing tool for x86 systems now works on ARM64 hardware too, making it useful for Raspberry Pi, Apple Silicon, and server ARM users by giving the proper memtest option. Time to remove 86 from their name? 🤣

It ships with Linux 7.3, GNOME 51, an improved App Center, and many other upgrades. itsfoss.com/news/ubuntu-...

Amazon, Google, and Meta funded the study through their lobby group CCIA Europe. The EU Commission's own estimate? €18 billion. Six times less. itsfoss.com/news/eu-clou...

Quick Firefox Tip 💡 Bookmark multiple tabs at once: 1. CTRL+Click the tabs you want to bookmark. 2. Right-click one of the selected tabs and choose “Bookmark Tabs”. 3. Name the bookmark folder, select a location, and press “Save”.

As Linus Torvalds embraces AI, it is time that we also pull our socks up and get on with local AI. itsfoss.com/newsletter/f...